lockup on x logout

["'cduck' Chris Grierson" <cduck@u.washington.edu>]

i use xdm -nodaemon from inittab (respawn), rather than xdm (mostly
because i like knowing it will always be restarted if xdm bails).  first
off, is that excessive?  secondly, xdm has recently been acting up a
bit (well, it could be entirely X itself...).  basically, on logout, X
exits and xdm restarts, but i have seen the box lockup (can't escape to
the virtual terminals) when X restarts on logout.  it certainly doesn't
happen all the time, but it can't be down, as it NFS-hosts user
directories.

i am running 2.4.9/woody with XFree86 4.1.0 (whatever is current in
woody).  has anyone experienced this before?  does anyone think that
it might be related to xdm running from inittab vs as a daemon?

-c

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